Fading Plum Blossoms Keep Their Fragrance

[Intro]

[Verse 1]

The path outside the old post station is a little overgrown

The broken bridge holds my footsteps beside the rain

I waited, but no one came to ask after me

Then bloom where dusk is coldest

[Pre-Chorus]

Wind and rain may pass over my shoulders

Yet they cannot decide the spring within my heart

[Chorus]

I need no spring breeze to prove myself

I need no one’s approval to dare stand here

Even when I fall, my fragrance remains earnest

Keeping later footsteps company as they slowly recede

I need no spring breeze to prove myself

I only wish to live this life without losing my true heart

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Verse 2]

Flowers elsewhere are chasing their season of glory

I hear my own branches creaking in the night

I was not born unafraid of pain

It is more that I fear betraying the direction I first chose

[Pre-Chorus]

Wind and rain may pass over my shoulders

Yet they cannot decide the spring within my heart

[Chorus]

I need no spring breeze to prove myself

I need no one’s approval to dare stand here

Even when I fall, my fragrance remains earnest

Keeping later footsteps company as they slowly recede

I need no spring breeze to prove myself

I only wish to live this life without losing my true heart

[Bridge]

If the world demands I trade away my clarity

Before it will lend me a seat amid the revelry

I would rather keep this little bit of unadorned purity

And save my tenderness for those who understand

[Final Chorus]

I need no spring breeze to prove myself

I need no one’s approval to dare stand here

Even when I fall, my fragrance remains earnest

Keeping later footsteps company as they slowly recede

I need no spring breeze to prove myself

I only wish to live this life without losing my true heart

[Outro]

When the wind stills, even the dust holds a lingering fragrance

That is where I once lived with earnest care